Absalom Absalom A narrative Perscective. On William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!; An Innovative Narrative Technique

Eng. 413. Major Authors: William Faulkner

Friday, December 06, 1996

        Guilt should be viewed by means of and through the eyes of more than 1

person, southern or otherwise. William Faulkner filters the

story, Absalom, Absalom!, through several minds providing the

reader with a dilution of its representation. Miss genus Rosa,

frustrated, lonely, mad, is unable to answer her deliver questions

concerning Sutpens motivation. Mr. Compson sees much of the

evil and the illusion of romanticism of the evil that turned

Southern ladies into ghosts. Charles Bon and Henry Sutpen are

evaluated for their motives through Quentin Compson and Shreve

McCannon. Quentin attempt to evade his awareness, Shreve the

outsider (with Quentins help) reconstructs the story and

understands the meaning of Thomas Sutpens life. In the novel

Absalom, Absalom!, a multiple consciousness technique is used to

reassess the treat of historical reconstruction by the

narrators.

        Chapter one is the scene in which Miss Rosa tells Quentin

about the early days in Sutpens life. Its here that Rosa

explains to Quentin why she wanted to visit old mansion on this

day. She is the one narrator that is unable to view Sutpen

objectively.



The first chapter serves as merely an introduction

to the history of Sutpen based on what Miss Rosa heard as a child

and her brief personal experiences.

        The floor of Absalom, Absalom!, can be considered a

coded activity. Faulkner creates the complex narration beginning

at chapter 2. It ironic that one of Faulkners greatest novels

is one in which the author only appears as the teller of the

story in one brief fraction; The expound of the heros arrival,

Thomas Sutpen, into Jefferson in chapter 2. Although Faulkner

sets the scene up in each section (The omniscient narrator), most

of the novel is delivered through a continual...

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